Thursday, January 15, 2009

Peace, lies, and free speech

Broward county, Florida is abuzz this week as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has placed ads on city buses.
The ads say "Islam-the way of life of Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammad".
Some are upset that the ads are religious in nature but Christian churches have also advertised there and Florida courts have decreed the buses are "public forums" hence free speech rights apply. Fine, but...
One tiny problem-Islam was most definitely not the religion of Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. Don't all monotheistic religions look upon lying as sinful? Oops.
Coral Springs FL resident and right-wing Jewish activist Joe Kaufman condemned the ads as offensive. Mr. Kaufman...bite me. You write for the webzine Front Page which has called for nuclear attacks on Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. You're also probably tied up (says the South Florida Sun-Sentinel) with the miltant Kahanist Jewish sect which wants to physically toss Muslims out of Israel.
And you dare call your umbrella group "Americans Against Hate". What you hate is truth, common sense and live and let live.
CAIR and AAH, according to media reports hate each other (see the irony?) and each has accused the other of advocating terrorism. Way to advocate peace guys!
Both groups, despite their public statements, are steeped in racism and intolerance. Neither of them, in my opinion, would know the truth if it flew down and bit them in the ass.
Why don't you both turn the other cheek and shut the fuck up? If there is a God, I doubt he'd look favorably on either group for fostering misinformation and divisiveness on already divided mistrusting public.
CAIR's ad has no more credibility than various products hawked on TV via 800 numbers and should be looked at as such.
Let me be clear hence the PC Nazis get peeved...CAIR has a perfect right to place those ads. I and hopefully millions of others have the right to call them on the carpet for speaking with forked tongue.

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